Galway

We arrived in Galway yesterday! It was an interesting day for sure. It began by walking about a mile with our luggage from the dorm to the right bus stop and then getting on a completely full bus with our bags. I think everyone on the bus hated us :) We went to the train station (my first real train ride!) and it was about a 3 hour ride to Galway. We are staying at the university dorms here also (we even get a full size bed). After we dropped all of our stuff off we had lunch at their cafeteria. When we were done some people took a 40 minute walk in the rain to the shore and some of us took the bus downtown to do some shopping. Guess which one I did :) I figured since we are going to the shore on Saturday, a little shopping couldn't hurt. Besides, walking in the rain for that long is silly. We eventually all met up and had dinner at a cute, traditional Irish restaurant. We came back to the dorms for awhile and then six of us went back downtown to a small pub where an Irish band was playing. It was tons of fun! We ended up getting a little lost on the walk home and ended up basically in a scrap yard...Luckily, we found a cab who took us back. It wasn't a dangerous area though, I promise! We came back and played some card games and hung out for a bit. Today, we are finally doing something social worky :) We are going to a lecture about families and the roles of people in families. It should be pretty interesting.

Hope all is going well in America! See you in 11 days!